what’s
the matter with classical music?
a symposium with a few
matters extraneous to any subject
DR. CARLISLE CARWELL: if
SURGITE THOMPSON: did not
anyone
DR. CARWELL: I might resume
MR. THOMPSON: bring anyone
DR. CARWELL: with the matter
in hand
MR. THOMPSON: with coffee?
HURLA MITCHELSON: bubbles in
any stream that’s what any facts are
THE REVEREND DR. PIBEAU
DOTTMEISTER: God bless the convocation in any or all of its many aspects
GUY THING: let’s have a go
all round
LIL BEAUPIPE: eep eep eep eep
I’m laughing joy is what we have almost any time the cello sings
MISS MITCHELSON: with a
humdrum humdrum hum drum drum
DR. CARWELL: ti-tum ti-tum
now that’s all settled let’s deploy all things might seem to suggest or
whatever you might say it can’t
MISS MITCHELSON: hummy hummy
dummy drummy
MR. THOMPSON: cream in my
coffee
MR. THING: I’d love a very
well-developed swing
MADAME BEAUPIPE: in any
landscapes worthy of the condition of music
DR. CARWELL: with small
towers you can say the lie of the land with
MISS MITCHELSON: oh I
MADAME BEAUPIPE: and all the
little holes
MR. THOMPSON: filled with Joe